News - Topics from November, 2013

Lamar County head coach Franklin Stephens won a coin toss with Benedictine head coach Danny Britt Saturday morning and the Trojans will play host to the Cadets Friday in the GHSA Class AA semifinal game.

A win would propel the Trojans to the state championship game at the Georgia Dome.

The #1 Lamar County Trojans played host to the Thomasville Bulldogs in the second round of the GHSA Class AA state football playoffs Friday night at Trojan Field and came away with a 38-20 win before a huge, raucous crowd.

Lamar built at 17-0 lead early and led 24-7 at the half and 31-7 halfway through the thrid period thanks to a stellar, 76-yard TD run by Quentin Frazer. Then, the wheels came off for awhile.

Glenna Waller of Barnesville, president of Little Children of the World and Little Children of the Philippines, says word of some of the charity’s ministries in typhoonstruck Philippines is beginning to trickle in. The locally based international charity is raising funds to help the victims.
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The Sportsmen’s Bible Study of Barnesville First Baptist Church is sponsoring a turkey shoot to benefit Gavin Lance Saturday, Nov. 16, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Ag Center Field on Roberta Drive across from the sheriff’s office. It is one of two upcoming benefits for the local teenager who was severely injured in a car accident.[Full Story »]

A Barnesville man who was the subject of a manhunt in Lamar, Pike and Spalding counties for allegedly using a taser on a five-year-old boy has been arrested. A woman, thought to be the mother of the child, was also jailed.
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